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AZJonnie

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3. I wasn't calling anyone involved a right winger, I'm saying I expect one day they'll do an about face on ACC
Mon Jul 13, 2026, 03:03 AM
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And try to blame scientists for not having expressed enough urgency, while all along they themselves were calling it a hoax and/or totally overblown.

Yes, IMHO the word "genocidal" is way extreme. There's no reason to suggest that scientists are underplaying it because they want to wipe out populations based on their genes. That's what the insinuation is, and I do NOT think it's appropriate.

I think generally the science has been done with integrity, and there's a lot that's unknown, therefore, there's a large range of possible outcomes. And yes, I also have a problem with the glacial pace of research, and the temporal consistency problem mentioned in the article. It may even be that some of the people we used to trust have been lured by the darkside. Maybe even for money. But not because they are blithely intending to wipe out people based on their genes, so they're downplaying the situation.

IMHO that is an excellent article but the author has seriously degraded it's quality with extremist, click-bait nonsense like "genocidal". I think that's unfortunate.

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